Makyah
Makyah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,375 among girls’ names; 818 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makyah?
#16,375 among girls’ names, 2025
Makyah fell from #5,951 in 2015 to #16,375 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 3.1 per million.
65 babies in 2007, the peak
Makyah peaked in 2007, when 65 babies were given it (54 girls, #3,200 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,375 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,751 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,952 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,138 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,796 | 5.5 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,240 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,996 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,003 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,689 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,319 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,951 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,249 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 35 | #4,216 | 19.9 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,686 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,815 | 22.7 |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,726 | 23.6 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,922 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,566 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 54 | #3,200 | 28.1 |
| 2006 | 49 | #3,349 | 25.8 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,556 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 47 | #3,242 | 25.6 |
| 2003 | 47 | #3,160 | 25.7 |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,440 | 22.3 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,518 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,021 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,075 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,248 | 9.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 818 Americans recorded as Makyah, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makyah, and how old are they?
An estimated 810 Americans named Makyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 14 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 647 people named Makyah (575 women and girls, 72 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 760 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Makyah?
Makyah is a less common spelling of Makiyah: SSA has recorded 818 Makyah and 3,568 Makiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,258 babies since 1880, Makyah is the seventh most given (5.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 158 babies (3.2%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Makyah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Makyah and names like it
- Compare Makyah and MakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakyah peaked in 2007.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.